Seldom does the moon shine bright in cloudless skies, and days of brightness all too soon pass by
May 31 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I don’t think there’s nearly enough coherent analysis on the fact that digital technology is doing to western liberalism what the printing press did to establishment monarchism.
In fact, digital technology is far greater in magnitude because it combines both the economic upheavals of the industrial revolution with the massive social change facilitated by a 1000x bandwidth/speed increase in communication.
May 21 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
I am someone who generally (compared to many people on here at least) holds stable, rules-based liberal governance in high regard.
That all being said, I am not sure exactly what the American left believed would happen (wrt trials/habeas corpus) as a result of mass immigration.
It was entirely predictable that an excess quantity of migrants being permitted to enter the United States (and europe, as this plays out there as well) would lead to a backlash. If the laws do not allow that backlash to organically occur, the laws will be ignored.
Apr 17 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
“China’s economy rose on the back of America’s” is an erroneous take. American investment and manufacturing played a critical role in its development in Phase I and II (1990-2015) but by the early 2010s America’s consumer market was completely saturated.
China’s exports to the developing world have continued to tier-up because the American consumer can literally not purchase enough stuff any more for China to grow. We’re at our limit.
Sep 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
“Those damn Zoomers thinking they should have it better than we do…”
I absolutely should. I should have it better than you. I should have it 3 times better than you ever did simply considering the advancements in productivity and technology that have occurred since your
writhing bodies were wrenched forth from your mothers wombs. I should have an exponentially higher standard of living than you did at the time you were my age and the fact I do not is the greatest indictment of your generation ever.
Apr 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
there are two possibilities for a modern world where we don’t win:
A) slow collapse under unstoppable tide of dysgenics
or
B) reduction of humanity to a population of what are effectively ants
the former could lead to a revival down the line. it could also lead to humans lacking a source of energy available enough to power us off this world, leading to our extinction sometime down the line.
Apr 14, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
if we lived in a sane civilization right now you (as a 120+ IQ white male in his early 20s) would have your pick of jobs in geoengineering, nuclear power, space logistics, or public aesthetic curation right now.
if you so wished, you would be able to rent a top-tier apartment in a gorgeous, aesthetically designed downtown in a major city surrounded by museums, art galleries, nouveau-performance spaces, and all manner of other delights. there would be virtually no crime.
